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2. US Coast and Geodetic Survey Seismological and Geomagnetic ...

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   Designated AHRS. March 7, 1977. The US Coast and Geodetic Survey Seismological and Geomagnetic House, also known as the Forest Service House, is a historic house at 210 Seward Street in Sitka, Alaska. Constructed by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1916, it has seen a variety of uses by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, United States ...

3. Battle of Sitka - Wikipedia

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   The Battle of Sitka (Russian: Сражение при Ситке; 1804) was the last major armed conflict between Russians and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years before. The primary combatant groups were the Kiks.ádi ("Ones of Kíks ", Frog/Raven) Clan of Sheetʼká Xʼáatʼi ...

4. Sitka Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Coastal Defenses

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   August 11, 1986. The Sitka Naval Operating Base and U.S. Army Coastal Defenses are the surviving elements of the World War II -era defenses and defense establishments in and around Sitka, Alaska. These facilities, in particular the airfields and naval bases, played a key role in the defense of Alaska, and in military operations against Japanese ...

5. Russian Bishop's House - Wikipedia

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   Description. The Russian Bishop's House is a two-story log structure, measuring about 42 by 63 feet (13 m × 19 m). It is divided into nine bays, each measuring about 7 feet (2.1 m) (one sazhen) square, and covered by a hip roof. The east and west ends of the building are further extended by shed-roof "galleries" that are 14 feet (4.3 m) wide ...

6. Mount Verstovia - Wikipedia

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   The prominent peak of Mount Verstovia is located just 2.6 miles east of the center of Sitka, Alaska, on Baranof Island, Alexander Archipelago.The 3,354-foot (1,022 m) summit rises steeply from the nearby Pacific Ocean, with its lower flanks cloaked in temperate old growth rain forests and its upper regions, above 2,400 feet, being above treeline and providing excellent vistas of Sitka and the ...

7. St. Michael's Cathedral (Sitka, Alaska) - Wikipedia

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   St. Michael's Cathedral (Russian: Собор Архангела Михаила Sobor Arkhangela Mikhaila, also known as the Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel) is a cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska, at Lincoln and Maksoutoff Streets in Sitka, Alaska. The earliest Orthodox cathedral in the New World, it was built ...